Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist and Former Buckaroo Tom Brumley Passed Away
- Hall of Fame steel guitarist Tom Brumley passed away early Wednesday morning at the age of 73.
…he served as a key member of Buck Owens’ Buckaroos band during the ’60s. Touring and recording with Owens, Brumley played on such No. 1 hits as “Act Naturally” and “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail.” His work on Owens’ recording of “Together Again” is widely regarded as one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music.
Brumley also played on albums by Dwight Yoakam, Sara Evans and Robbie Fulks.
- If you’ve never seen it, watch the video of Carl Smith, Marty Robbins and Webb Pierce performing the George Jones standard “Why Baby Why,” a song that Patty Loveless covered on her newest album, Sleepless Nights.
- Catch a sneak peek, or uh listen, at “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s forthcoming album of Depression-era blues classics, A Stranger Here.
- NPR’s All Things Considered has an interview with Steve Martin about his love for the banjo, how he developed his technique and his new album, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo. (via The Bluegrass Blog)
- Ricky Skaggs is reissuing four of his country albums from the ’80s.
- The New York Times‘ Jon Caramanica dishes on the two-hour set performed by the Zac Brown Band — who bore only a slight resemblance to the band on record — at the Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night:
His best vocals were at the end of the most affecting original song on the album, “Highway 20 Ride,” which is in the form of a note from divorced father to son, explaining why they only see each other every other weekend. And in places — a cover of Ray LaMontagne’s stark, unnerving “Jolene,” and “Junkyard,” about an abusive household — Mr. Brown’s brow was furrowed, as if no amount of good cheer or great musical accompaniment could provide succor for the pain beneath. That he hurt was something of a relief.
- People magazine has the first pictures of Dierks Bentley’s daughter.
- Listen to Charlie Louvins‘ “Darling Corey,” from his album Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, on PopMatters.
- A recording of Trace Adkins singing Jamey Johnson’s hit song “In Color” is collecting dust somewhere (Actually, Trace released it as a bonus track on iTunes. Thanks for the tip Zack.):
“Trace did cut it,” says songwriter Lee Thomas Miller, who was a co-writer on both “In Color” and Trace’s hit “You’re Gonna Miss This.” “[Trace] cut a great record on it. I think Jamey, when he wrote it, in the back of his mind wanted to do somethin’ on it. But he didn’t have a deal, so he really didn’t stop Trace from cutting it. So kind of the next thing we know, Trace has cut it, it’s done, it’s ready to go, and guess what? Jamey’s released it as a single. Universal has signed him. Trace was gracious. From what he told me, ‘The guy wrote the song. What am I gonna do?’”
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February 5, 2009 at 11:19 am Permalink
Trace’s version was released as a bonus track for “X” on iTunes. A little different than Johnson’s, but I don’t think it beats the original.
February 5, 2009 at 12:37 pm Permalink
Rest in peace, Tom Brumley. Thank you for all of the music that you gave us.
February 5, 2009 at 2:41 pm Permalink
Here, this might e new but, if it ain’t think ignore but, here is Joey & Rory’s unplugged stdio 33 sesssions.http://www.cmt.com/videos/unplugged/joey-rory/337722/heart-of-the-wood.jhtml
February 5, 2009 at 2:53 pm Permalink
Condolences to Mr. Brumley’s family, sorry for your loss. I’m sure Buck and Don Rich are up there singing those perfect harmonies accompanied by a little steel. My mom used to sing Garden Party when I was a kid so I have always loved that song.
February 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm Permalink
Dig the Charlie Louvin song. Really cool.
February 5, 2009 at 6:54 pm Permalink
Its always sad when a classic country artist with an illustrious past passes away. Steel guitars just aren’t utilized in Nashville based modern country the way they used to be. Although they may be added to give country pop songs a “country feel” its more like a token gesture than an integral part of the song’s structure in most cases. Nowadays I’m thankful that artists like Miss Leslie, Amber Digby, Kimberly Murray, and lesser known indie artists like Dave Cox still utilize the steel guitar as a primary instrument in their music. Here in Los Angeles we have an excellent western swing band named “The Lucky Stars” that features a young steel guitar player named Jeremy Wakefield. JW provides steel guitar for SpongeBob Squarepants cartoons as there just isn’t that much other need for steel guitar players here in LA.
Thanks for the link to those country greats of yesteryear singing “Why Baby Why”. Good stuff.
Its nice Ricky Skaggs is reissuing some of his great 80’s new traditionalist revival albums. Now if he’d just include more of those songs in his live shows and de-emphasize the Bill Monroe stuff….
February 5, 2009 at 9:22 pm Permalink
I don’t understand. How can someone who wrote The High Cost of Living and Between Jennings and Jones also write Honkey Tonk Badonkadonk and You’re Gonna Miss This? Is Trace Adkins really a vortex of suck?
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